Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The NSW election is not taking place until Saturday but you can put down your glasses right now, because Dom Perignon is gone, thrown out on his arse by an electorate that never liked him in the first place, and has been given no reason to change their minds. Perignon has thrown the kitchen sink […]
Can anyone at Racing QLD explain to us the justification for sending Shane Scriven from their jockey school on an all expenses paid jaunt down to South Australia to see Emily Lang win both heats of the National Apprentices Series yesterday? I mean, I am sure that Emily appreciated having some old fart teacher from […]
Here is more information the debacle on Sunday at the Launceston trots. When the ABC film crew working on an expose rolled into the course Ben Yole – who knows this is all about him, because we’ve repeatedly told him, and who after years of Ben Yole is Australia’s leading trainer by winners. He has […]
The ABC film crew strolled through the gates of the Launceston trot track unopposed. Ben Yole saw them come in, and raced straight to the stewards demanding that they remove the ABC crew from the course. Almost immediately all of Yole’s drivers on the card joined him in demanding that the Stewards remove the ABC investigators […]
With the Canadian superstar administrator Greg Gangle departing the banks of the Murrumbidgee to take up residence on the Yarra River floodplain, the hot word in the public bar of the International Hotel at Wagga is that the current Chief Steward and local boy Travis Quick is the raging hot fave to jump the table […]
Does anyone remember the so-called Cobram race fixing rort from a couple of years ago? The one that saw Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack and Mark Pitt charged with criminal offences and convicted, with the convictions later overturned on appeal? It was a nightmare for the subsequently acquitted star duo, one that could quite easily have ended […]
Tasmanian racing is about to be enveloped by a major scandal involving wage, theft, over work leading to near fatal accidents, animal cruelty and a whole lot of other really bad things. The Office of Racing Integrity knows that this firestorm is coming, but do nothing to front foot it by being proactive about the […]
We are told that the film cutting and production process has held up the ABC Four Corners expose on Ben Yole’s barbaric animal cruelty practices for another week or two. It’s coming though, like a runaway steam train. Don’t you worry about that.
The future of the New Zealand TAB could become clearer this week as New Zealand’s sole betting operator receives proposals from the three overseas betting agencies looking to run the majority of its operations. But while racing industry bosses support the idea of what is being termed a strategic partnership, Racing Minister Kieran McAnulty will […]
Gold Coast Greg says he hopes itS tomato. BBQ is for Kiwis and Blues. We don’t cop that type of squeeze north of the Tweed.
